Crossword clues for slipper
slipper
- Prop in "Cinderella"
- Something a dog might fetch
- Low footwear that can be slip on and off easily
- Usually worn indoors
- Mule, e.g
- Glass or lady's
- One of a pair
- At front of shop: "51p for each runner"
- Fielder that's a victim of icy conditions?
- Indoor shoe
- There's no end of unstable footwear
- Footwear item
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoe \Shoe\ (sh[=oo]), n.; pl. Shoes (sh[=oo]z), formerly Shoon (sh[=oo]n), now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[=o]h, sce['o]h; akin to OFries. sk[=o], OS. sk[=o]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[=o]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[=o]hs; of unknown origin.]
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A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied.
--Shak.Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.
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Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically:
A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
The part of an automobile or railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
(Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
(Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
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(Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.
Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
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The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile. Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.)
A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered.
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A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.
Shoe block (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other.
Shoe bolt, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners.
Shoe pac, a kind of moccasin. See Pac.
Shoe stone, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of loose, light indoor footwear, late 15c., agent noun from slip (v.), the notion being of a shoe that is "slipped" onto the foot. Old English had slypescoh "slipper," literally "slip-shoe."
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) slippery n. 1 A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. 2 Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper. 3 (context US Hawaii English) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal). 4 A person who slips. 5 A kind of apron or pinafore for children. 6 A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. 7 (context engineering English) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gi
8 A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper". 9 (context euphemism English) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment. vb. (context UK Australia NZ English) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
WordNet
n. low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors [syn: carpet slipper]
a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction [syn: skidder, slider]
Wikipedia
A slipper is "a semi-closed type of indoor/outdoor shoe". It may also refer to:
- Golden Slipper, an Australian Thoroughbred horse race
- Operation Slipper, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) contribution to the war in Afghanistan
- Slipper clutch, a type of clutch designed for motorcycles
- Slipper Island, an island off the coast of New Zealand's North Island
- Jack Slipper (1924–2005), a Detective Chief Superintendent for the Metropolitan Police
- Slipper lobster, a family of crustaceans
- Peter Slipper (b. 1950), an Australian politician
- Ballet shoe
- Flip-flops
Usage examples of "slipper".
He wore an anachronistic costume: white drip-dry shirt, jeans and laceless leather slippers.
But despite the glow of a thousand candles and Argand lamps, he saw nothing but flashes of fans and trains and white slippers.
I went in with her and was astonished to see a great display of dresses, and in an adjoining closet all the array of the toilette, linen in abundance, and a good stock of shoes and embroidered slippers.
They walk in the middle of winter with their poor little toes pinched into a miniature slipper, incapable of excluding as much moisture as might bedew a primrose.
My landlord--he was a notary by trade, and by name Ser Torpe--was dismayed to see me in bedgown and slippers.
Her beplumed hat floated in a pool of disfiguring water, her long suede gloves lay in a ditch and her white satin wedding slippers, alas, hung by their tiny heels at the top of a tree in a neighboring township, the only tree in the entire surrounding county, put there, in all probability, to catch and hold them for her.
I forget I am but a barbarian, whereas you, fair damsel, are a noble Byzantine, and I am not fit but to bow as a bondslave before your glimmering slippers.
Then he conceived a great suspition and jealousie in mind, howbeit he would not discover it to his wife, neither to any other person, but putting secretly the slippers into his bosome, commanded his other Servants to bind Myrmex incontinently, and to bring him bound to the Justice after him, thinking verily that by the meane of the slippers he might boult out the matter.
He dressed in blue silk breeches and waistcoat, buckled slippers, and an absurd curled and powdered wig that released clouds of white dust whenever he moved his decrepit head.
She had also discarded her ruined slippers in favor of calf high buskins with sturdy sandals strapped over them.
I got home, Nurse and Adar and Cookey were in scullery, all saying loud about Slippers and Kitchen Cat and Smallest.
CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new handsome slippers, which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial tour.
Everything being arranged according to my wishes, I went, as a careful and delicate lover, to purchase the finest slippers I could find, and a cap in Alencon point.
To the corresponding cupboard, on the other side of the fire, which had lost a corner by the descent of the roof, Mr Cupples now dragged his slippers, feeling in his waistcoat pocket, as he went, for the key.
She zipped it up defiantly, brushed out her hair so that it curled on her neck, dug her feet into slippers, caught up the dark grey flannel coat she had bought years ago and which was happily dateless and ran downstairs.